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The Umlauts
The Umlauts
country: UK
genre: Alternative
styles: Electronica, Synthpop, Wonky-Pop, Wonky-Pop, Wonky-Pop
Sweat
Single
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Following the release of singles ‘Non è Ancora’ and ‘Another Fact’ which gained them the breakout features in NME and The Quietus, multilingual wonky-pop gang The Umlauts share their final preview of the new EP, ‘Another Fact’: http://ffm.to/theumlautssweat New cut ‘Sweat’ is a song of two conflicting voices. One presents an idealistic and perfect summer romance; sun, sea and sex; whilst the other speaks from a place of pessimistic experience - ‘We bereaved and lamented to the point where I pretended/ and that was the time when we knew it should have ended’. “Singing in English seems to unveil our most pessimistic side.” they tell. “Musically we wanted this song to feel almost like an italo-pop pastiche. It's good fun, we love it.”
“We’re just your average trans-European, multi-lingual, art-school, post-punk, techno-inspired, über-group/circus-troop/diaeresis”. That’s The Umlauts there, attempting to describe the matrix-like myriad of influences that they’ve somehow managed to gel together to create the beguiling sounds of their new EP, Another Fact.
Although The Umlauts’ genesis is in Stroud, thanks to songwriting partners Alfred Lear and Oliver Offord, the addition of visual artists Annabelle Mödlinger and Maria Vittoria Faldini as lyricists and vocalists, after meeting at art college in London, blew the group wide open in terms of what they could do creatively. As such, Ü’s tightly hewn mix of mechanical synth-pop, spiky no wave and bristling post-punk bore the hallmarks of a band exhilaratingly committing ideas as quickly as they could have them.
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